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Elon Musk has announced that xAI, his AI startup rivalling OpenAI, plans to double the size of its Colossus supercomputer cluster, which currently consists of 100,000 Nvidia GPUs. -
Semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed is the latest chipmaker to receive funding under the US CHIPS and Science Act, receiving up to $750 million to build a new silicon carbide wafer manufacturing site in North Carolina.
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Crusoe, the crypto miners turned clean energy AI infrastructure operator, has launched a $3.4 billion joint venture with Blue Owl Capital and Primary Digital Infrastructure to build data centres in Texas.
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Vertiv has revealed plans for a major expansion of its North American manufacturing footprint with a new 215,000-square-foot facility in Pelzer, South Carolina.
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Italian cloud and data centre operator Aruba S.p.A has unveiled its €300 million hyperscale data centre campus in Rome.
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Google has started construction on two new data centres in Dorchester County, South Carolina, as part of a $2 billion investment that will create 200 jobs.
Forthcoming events
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AT&T has offloaded its advertising platform, Xandr, to Microsoft, marking another stage in its withdrawal from the media world.
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NEC has announced it has successfully demonstrated OpenRAN capabilities for the Global Plugfest event at five of its venues.
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BT and other wholesale partners of satellite company OneWeb will start testing services in January, Capacity understands, with commercial services likely to be on offer several months later.
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ColdQuanta, the quantum security and computing company led by Zayo founder Dan Caruso, has appointed heads of research and of engineering.
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Telecom Italia’s (TIM) former CEO Luigi Gubitosi has stepped down from the company’s board as the search for his successor continues.
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The US government last week recommended that Google and Meta’s undersea data cable to Asia should be approved for use.
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IBM and Samsung Electronics have hailed a breakthrough in semiconductor design using a new vertical transistor architecture.
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Verizon and Google Cloud are partnering to bring the cloud closer to mobile and connected devices at the edge of Verizon's network.
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GTT has announced that the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has approved the company’s Prepackaged Plan.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today.
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Equinix has announced a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq to scale the Equinix NY11 data centre in Carteret, New Jersey in support of Nasdaq’s cloud infrastructure.
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Global Cloud Xchange, which is about to be bought by 3i Infrastructure, says it has reported strong financial results for the half-year ending 30 September.
